The price for WDTV Live + on sale here in the US is $119, and the 1 TB hard drive from Newegg (2.5" model) is also $119. The cost of this unit appears to be cheaper than the total cost of those two components. Also, note that the price in USD might be cheaper than what it is in CAD.

Fry's has the WD TV Live Plus for $99 (regular in store price) but you need to keep in mind you are also getting a media server. So the way I look at it you are getting local storage, media player and media server. I believe you can plug in additional storage but if you want to upgrade your media player or server down the road you can't individually.

"Flash Lite is a development technology implemented at the client-side, or user interface layer. Recent changes to ActionScript allow Flash Lite to better integrate with and even compete with device-layer technologies like Java ME and BREW. Flash Lite should not be considered a mobile operating system like Symbian OS, Windows Mobile, iOS (iPhone OS), or Android: it is a technology for developing applications that run on a mobile operating system."

"Flash Lite 1.1 supports Flash 4 ActionScript. Flash Lite 2.0, based on Flash Player 7, supports Flash 7's newer ActionScript 2.0. Both versions also support the World Wide Web Consortium's Standard SVG Tiny, a mobile profile of the consortium's Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) recommendation. Unlike SVG, Flash Lite can add audio and interactive elements without the use of other technologies such as JavaScript. As with Flash, Flash Lite is able to read and redraw external XML content. Flash Lite 3 is based on Flash 8, which brings closer the gap between mobile and desktop content by supporting H.264 video standard, as well as On2 VP6 and Sorenson video codecs. It also introduces the support to FLV video content. Flash Lite 4.0 supports ActionScript 3, and will be a browser plugin, not a standalone player.

Flash Lite 3.0 which is based on Flash Player 8 supports FLVs like the ones used on Youtube and Google Video. Flash Lite 2.0 and 2.1 do not have FLV support."(wiki)

Yeah I don't know what good Flash Lite support is unless they implement a web browser.

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Originally Posted by fullmetalZERO

The UI seems somewhat like Boxee based on the screenshots from the packaging and the photos posted. Any idea what it's running -- something proprietary?

I would wager that the UI and apps (or "Services" as WD is calling them) are what use Flash Lite just like the Tivo Premiere. I'm interested to see if they make an "app store" sort of similar to Roku so that content can be added later. At minimum if it can be hacked there may be some good potential there.

It's funny that people think Google provides firmware updates for Android phones, when they do absolutely no such thing.

Google updates the core Android OS. Phone manufacturers and / or carriers decide whether or not there are firmware upgrades on your phone. Yes, rooted phones can sometimes run more recent versions of Android than the carrier or phone mfr. provides. Of course, this in no way applies to the question of who will provide updates for the Revue. The answer is: Logitech, a statement I can make with near certainty.

And you may ask yourself well how did I get here?
And you may ask yourself am I right? Am I wrong?
And you may say to yourself: What have I done?!
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Once you let the trolls run the bridge, you have a bridge run by trolls. I'll be back.

Yeah that's true about the Fusion, and they are trying to get Netflix on there. That's why I'll wait a month and see how the Hub goes. Maybe it won't need much in the way of fixes. And I think WD has been pretty decent with WD Live right? I've never had a WD product before. Mainly I want to get this because it has internal HD and component. Don't know of other media players that have that.

About pricing.. 1 CAD is 1 USD pretty much, but I do hope you are right

I still own WDTV hd (first generation), and now is plugged to my kid's Hdtv, it is still running without a hitch, connected to a small 500GB passport usb drive.
I gotta tell you, i have a lot respect for this tough tiny box.It went to 3 different continents , i plugged it to Hotel's tv sets ( Thanks to PAL/NTSC)
I spent 0 dollar maintaining/fixing this WD box for more? than 2 or 3 years. I Can't even remember when we got it at first. And i will probably buy another WD product without hesitation.

Read through all the posts in the thread; and I may have missed it, but did anyone confirm if this unit can play Blu-ray & DVD ISO with FULL Menu Support? And if it can passthrough DTS-HD 7.1 & Dolby TrueHD 7.1?

And I think WD has proven they are very slow to fix bugs, and generally don't want to add new stuff (they want you to buy the next version)

Bingo! Why get excited about his box. It will come out with bugs that may or may not be fixed and when it's just approaching being decent, the next box will be out and support for this one will cease...

Look, it seems nice, good UI, good feature set, but where is the net scraping for cover art, imdb reviews? Should we wait for Boxee?

It's funny that people think Google provides firmware updates for Android phones, when they do absolutely no such thing.

Google updates the core Android OS. Phone manufacturers and / or carriers decide whether or not there are firmware upgrades on your phone. Yes, rooted phones can sometimes run more recent versions of Android than the carrier or phone mfr. provides. Of course, this in no way applies to the question of who will provide updates for the Revue. The answer is: Logitech, a statement I can make with near certainty.

Why is that so funny, if you bought a dell computer with microsoft windows on it well dell doesnt supply the updates its microsoft in other words the software. Im not trying to start anything im just saying it would make sense.

I'm looking at other options for me and the Seagate FreeAgent Theater+ Solution looks promising. You can get it for $100 and then get a 1TB Seagate Freeagent Go hard drive for another 100 which attaches to the player for a total of $200. This is a very realistic alternative to the Hub. Has anyone tried this thing out?

What's kind of cool about the FreeAgent is that the hard drive is removable. Might be a good buy. If anything goes wrong with the HD inside the WD Hub, is it possible to replace it? Having a removable drive might prove useful, especially when comparing two products that have virtually identical specifications between them (though I'm not sure about that, have to research more)